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I'm a student and so obviously don't have a lot of money. Since I don't already posess a pressure cooker, I was wondering how effective steam sterilisation? Does it work most of the time, or am I likely to get a high contamination rate during the colonisation of my substrate?

If you're doing PF style jars (with brown rice flour and vermiculite as your substrate) then you can simply boil your jars for an hour or so. PF style jars don't require a pressure cooker. Be sure to put a small towel down on the bottom of your pot so as to keep the glass from cracking due to the high heat.

If you have some money go to walmart and get one. Use it and take out the gasket and then take it back to walmart. Say the gasket is missing. Then when you do have the money to buy one to keep, you will already have an extra gasket. Win Win

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